Tuukka Toivonen November 14, 2024
Heather Barnett, an artist who works with slime mold, recently told me she viewed herself not simply as a practitioner of art but as a mediator. Through years of collaborative experimentation she had found herself, without intending to, acting as an intermediary between two mutually foreign forms of intelligence — slime molds and human beings…
Oskar Kokoschka November 12, 2024
Before the First World War and the infliction of politics into the art movement, the Austro-German Expressionist artists were concerned with, above all else, The Spirit. Oskar Kokoschka was a painter and poet whose intensity of emotion bled through into everything he produced, finding harmony with Nature and God in the untamed, free, and innocent soul of the artist. He offered a way into the self through religious experience, and payed respect to dreams and imaginations as visions of the inner eye just as valuable as optical sight. The true artist, Kokoschka believed, saw no difference in value between perceptions of the inner and outer world…
Chris Gabriel November 9, 2024
The Empress is maternal, feminine power. In each depiction we find the Empress crowned, enthroned, and bearing a scepter. She is the perfect balance to the masculine Emperor…
Molly Hankins November 7, 2024
As the idea of a fifth dimension continues to percolate through the spiritual zeitgeist, it is worth looking to the prolific occult writer and chaos magician Peter J. Carroll for his insight on 5D as it pertains to magic. In his famous treatise Liber Null & Psychonaut, Carroll explains how we seem to live in a world of effect rather than cause, where we measure effects to speculate towards details of cause…
Robin Sparkes November 5, 2024
Architects should draw more. Marking ideas across a page connects the mind and body. It mobilises psychological and motor functions in synchronicity. Hand-drawing activates areas in the brain responsible for spatial reasoning and visual perception, bringing an architect’s imagination into form through movement. Drawing is a dance…